“The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.” PeopleShowsTogetherFormNightFivePlayerSixTheaterTablesDinnerEvery NightEnsembleDinner Table Author:Michael J. Fox
“My mom always wanted me to be an actor. And I started going to theater and going on auditions young. I only realized about five years ago that I actually didn’t want to be an actor.” WantYearsWantedYoungActorsFiveMomYears AgoTheaterMy MomFive YearsAuditions Author:Angelina Jolie
“In the theater you rehearse for a minimum of five to six weeks. And then you get to play it. Which means you get to get better. That's the great thing about the theater.” MeanPlayFiveWeekSixTheaterGreat ThingsGet BetterMinimum Author:Christopher Walken
“I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for five minutes in real life.” PeopleRealHoursFiveMinutesSceneTheaterReal LifeFive Minutes Book:A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney Source: A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney
“I am a theater girl, and a lot of theater girls dress however pleases them. I wear whatever looks good on me. I wear what I wear because I have been shopping at thrift stores since I was five.” LooksHas BeensGirlFivePleaseTheaterDressesStoresShoppingThrift Author:Kirsten Vangsness
“I did my first show when I was five and I was the King of the Oompa Loompas in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The kids theater company, I was the youngest one, so there wasnt a part for me, so they made me the king of the Oompa Loompas.” FirstsMadeShowsKidsCompanyFiveKingsTheaterChocolateFactoriesCharlieCharlie And The Chocolate Factory Author:Max Schneider
“I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing in a film.” CharacterFilmHoursFiveTelevisionTvsTheaterSeriesMore TimeTv Series Author:Lennie James
“Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It is the only medium of art I can think of which appeals directly to none of our five senses. The oral and folk tradition in narrative made use of verse or live-voice dynamics, embellished by gesture and expression--a kind of rudimentary theater--as do the best raconteurs of all times. Commonly there was musical accompaniment as well: a kind of one-man theater-of-mixed-means.” ThinkingMenWayWellsKindMeanArtMadeI CanStoriesUsePoetryVoiceFivePoetExpressionTraditionTheaterMusicalFolksSensesMediumsAll TimeAppealsNarrativeProseOne ManPeculiarGesturesVersesDo The BestPrintedTelling StoriesDynamicsFive SensesAnesthetics Book:The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction Source: The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction
“I never met my theater fans. I'm out the stage door five minutes after the curtain goes up. So that's it. I don't even know who comes, but thank God they do come. I can't tell. I keep my head down. I don't meet them. The fans from "Harry Potter" are kids who stop me in the street. I love that. That's terrific. I was amazed how many do.” KnowsI CanKidsFiveDoorsFansStreetsMinutesStageMetsTheaterThank GodHarry PotterAmazedCurtainsFive MinutesTerrificPotters Author:Michael Gambon
“I went to film school when I was 17, and of course when you are very young you think that there is nothing else in the world except film. At some point I started getting hungry to see something else. For five years I didn't make any films, I was traveling around the world, writing for newspapers, working in theater, working in opera, I thought I would never return to film.” ThinkingWorldWritingYearsSchoolFilmYoungCoursesFiveReturnTheaterNewspapersHungryAround The WorldFive YearsOperaFilm School Author:Pirjo Honkasalo
“In college, I stopped doing pre-med and went into theater, and then I moved to San Francisco and lived there for five years.” YearsFiveCollegeTheaterMovedFive YearsSan FranciscoMeds Author:Mark Waters
“I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.” WritingMatterShowsMorningFiveAirGoes OnPicksTheaterNo Matter WhatRadioCooksClockLakesSaturdayFridayDeadlineAdrenalineMonologuesLake WobegonFriday Morning Author:Garrison Keillor
“I have to entertain myself. An easy way to explain it is I worked in NY since I was five-years-old doing modeling and commercials, and that's a completely different world than in California where I think there's different dreams and aspirations of maybe being a so-called 'star' and so forth. Here you do your work, whether it's theater or commercials.” ThinkingWorldWayYearsDifferentDreamStarsEasyFiveTheaterCaliforniaAspirationFive YearsModelingDifferent WorldsEasy WayFive Year OldsDreams And Aspirations Author:Linda Blair
“I'm the youngest of five kids, and I wanted attention. And in Santa Barbara, there was lots of theater going on, so for that area, it was a little bit like playing Little League baseball. There were dance classes, theater classes, and I just loved it.” LittlesKidsWantedBitsAttentionClassFiveLittle BitAreasBaseballTheaterLeagueSantaBarbaraDance ClassLittle LeagueLittle League BaseballSanta Barbara Author:Anthony Edwards
“I come from the theater and you normally have four or five weeks to prepare. For me, the fun of the job is to pull yourself into a subject that you know nothing about.” KnowsJobsFunFiveFourWeekSubjectsTheater Author:Kieran Bew
“Watching shows on Netflix is a different experience because most people are sitting there for three to five hours. Very few people even watch one episode. So it's not like a movie theater where you want to the movies to be shorter so you can go urinate. You can pause and urinate at home, and if something is longer, you're allowed to stop and eat breakfast and then watch eight more episodes.” PeopleIfsWantDifferentShowsHomeThreeHoursWatchesFiveSittingTheaterEightBreakfastEpisodesPausesMovie TheaterNetflixDifferent Experiences Author:Judd Apatow
“Ivo van Hove is directing The Crucible, and rehearses in quite an unusual way. We started rehearsals last week and dived straight into the first act, like, five minutes after we all turned up. No warm-ups. We were very intensely immersed in that whole world on day one. It was quite surreal because I've never done any theater before.” WorldWayFirstsDoneWholeLastsFiveWeekMinutesTheaterWarmWhole WorldUnusualFive MinutesVansRehearsalSurrealCrucible Author:Saoirse Ronan
“I started off in theater; I did exclusively theater for four or five years. In the last few years, television has come along but I can still make film. I feel very privileged that I can move between them.” FeelsYearsStillsI CanLastsFilmMovingFiveFourTelevisionTheaterFive YearsPrivileged Author:Cillian Murphy
“I'm in a very good place now because I do theater, I do TV and I make movies. I was a dancer, so I dance a little bit. I was a musician, so I do a little bit of music. And I do all of this in four or five different languages, and all over the world.” WorldLittlesDifferentLanguageBitsFiveFourTvsLittle BitMusicianTheaterVery GoodDancerGood PlaceDifferent Languages Author:Richard Sammel
“I met a bunch of people and they said, "We're gonna do a show [Second City]." So we would buy the theater out and do a show, and we did that for five years and we ended up becoming popular. It was before sketch comedy was hipster-time - when you would hand out a flier, people would roll their eyes. Now it's kind of cool.” PeopleYearsKindSaidShowsHandsEyeCitiesFiveComedyBecomingMetsTheaterBunchFive YearsThey SaidHipsterSketch ComedySecond City Author:Simon Helberg
“It ended suddenly for Brenda, more slowly for me. My runs began getting shorter and less pleasurable. I'd feel bad after only one day, or only a few hours, instead of four or five days. And I began to want to stop. One of the proudest moments of my life was at a rock-'n'-roll theater in New Jersey. A guy actually put some coke under my nose and I was able to say, "No, thanks," and turn my head away.” WantFeelsMomentsRunningAbleGuyTurnsHoursFiveFourRocksOne DayTheaterThanksNosesRock N RollJerseyCokeNew JerseyProudest Moments Author:George Carlin
“The great thing about theater is that when it's great, you'll remember it for the rest of your life. But if you go see ten shows, you'll only get five - if you're lucky - that'll give you that experience. But the rest, at the very least, will be interesting.” IfsGivingShowsRememberInterestingFiveLuckyTenTheaterGreat ThingsRest Of Your Life Author:Cate Blanchett
“In my experience in series TV if you have a good crew and a great cast it's going to be a great group - similar to the theater where it's a bunch of people who are really talented and go to work each day and challenge each other and if you are lucky enough to get a hit then it's five or six or seven years of this kind of work.” PeopleIfsYearsKindEnoughChallengesFiveGroupsTvsLuckySixTheaterSeriesSevenCastsBunchEach DayCrewSeven Years Author:Denis Leary
“These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television.” YearsLongRunningCan DoFiveTelevisionTvsTheaterSeriesThese DaysFeaturesFive YearsTv Series Author:Tom Berenger